Progressive (PGR:NYS) and Prudential Financial (PRU:NYS) Upgraded

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Upgraded Stocks on NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, TSE, and TSX

Today we are looking at companies whose share price has been upgraded by at least one analyst in the last few days.

Why Do Companies Get Upgraded?

Companies can get upgraded for a number of reasons, but primarily due to improved future earnings potential due to new contracts, new products, cost savings or restructuring.

In the list below you can see the number of analysts we have in the StockCalc database along with the number of buy-hold-sell on the company.

Today’s Data on NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX, TSE, and TSX

Below we have today’s data for companies listed on all of the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, and TSX Venture Exchange.

New York Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
MET MetLife Inc 3 1 1 0 0 0 4.4000 4.1667 Outperform
PGR Progressive Corp 3 0 0 1 0 0 4.2500 4.0000 Outperform
PRU Prudential Financial Inc 3 1 1 0 0 0 4.4000 4.1667 Outperform
CNQ Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 10 8 0 0 0 0 4.5556 4.5294 Buy
KSS Kohl’s Corp 0 0 5 0 0 0 3.0000 2.8000 Hold
CVE Cenovus Energy Inc 6 5 7 0 0 0 3.9444 3.8824 Outperform
JWN Nordstrom Inc 2 1 2 0 0 0 4.0000 3.8000 Outperform
COTY Coty Inc 2 0 2 0 0 0 4.0000 3.8000 Outperform
ZAYO Zayo Group Holdings Inc 3 0 1 0 0 0 4.5000 4.2000 Outperform
NUS Nu Skin Enterprises Inc 2 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 4.3333 Buy
VVV Valvoline Inc 1 1 0 0 0 0 4.5000 4.0000 Outperform
ENR Energizer Holdings Inc 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.6667 Outperform
EPC Edgewell Personal Care Co 1 0 3 0 0 0 3.5000 3.4000 Hold
COT Cott Corp 6 1 1 0 0 0 4.6250 4.4444 Buy
BE Bloom Energy Corp 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.0000 3.0000 Outperform
Toronto Stock Exchange
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
CNQ Canadian Natural Resources Ltd 10 8 0 0 0 0 4.5556 4.5294 Buy
HSE Husky Energy Inc 1 3 8 0 1 0 3.2308 3.0833 Hold
CVE Cenovus Energy Inc 6 5 7 0 0 0 3.9444 3.8824 Outperform
BCB Cott Corp 6 1 1 0 0 0 4.6250 4.4444 Buy
MTL Mullen Group Ltd 3 3 6 0 0 0 3.7500 3.5833 Outperform
DIR.UN Dream Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust 4 1 0 0 0 0 4.8000 4.7143 Buy
TDG Trinidad Drilling Ltd 0 0 2 0 1 0 2.3333 2.0000 Underperform
GS Gluskin Sheff & Associates Inc 0 1 5 0 0 0 3.1667 3.0000 Hold
FTG Firan Technology Group Corp 2 0 0 0 0 0 5.0000 4.5000 Buy
NASDAQ
Symbol Name Buy Out Perform Hold Under Perform Sell No Opinion Mean Rating Prev Mean Rating Mean Label
PEP PepsiCo Inc 2 0 3 0 0 0 3.8000 3.6667 Outperform
WLTW Willis Towers Watson PLC 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.3333 3.7500 Outperform
ACGL Arch Capital Group Ltd 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.3333 4.0000 Outperform
FEYE FireEye Inc 2 0 5 0 0 0 3.5714 3.4286 Outperform

Let’s look at a few companies…

Lets look at a couple of the companies on this list to get a better understanding of them.

PGR:NYS Progressive

http://www.progressive.com
Progressive has 33656 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Progressive Corp is an insurance holding company which provides personal and commercial auto insurance, residential property insurance, and other specialty property-casualty insurance and related services.

PRU:NYS Prudential Financial

http://www.prudential.com
Prudential Financial has 49705 employees and is headquartered in United States.
Prudential Financial Inc offers annuities, life insurance, retirement plan services, and asset management products to individual and institutional customers in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America.

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